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Paulsen, Gary
DOGSONG
New York : Puffin, 1987.
IL YA RL 5.8
ISBN 068983960X
You might think of this book as a boy's version of Julie of the Wolves. This young man befriends the oldest resident of the Eskimo settlement, and takes up the reins of the only dogsled. Everyone else uses those noisy snow machines. The young man finds his song along the trail that has him leave the old man sitting upright in the snow to die and finding a pregnant woman who must deliver the baby in harsh conditions 
SUBJECTS:     Eskimos -- Fiction

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